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MULBERRY GROVE – Though Patoka’s offense got somewhat stagnant after building a lead on Monday, the Warriors came away with a 7-3 victory against local rival Mulberry Grove.

Patoka scored twice in each the first, second and fourth innings, but entering the fifth with a 6-1 advantage seemed to take the aggressiveness out of the Warriors, who would have just one runner in the fifth and sixth innings.

•Earnest, a Vandalia grad, will bowl with Vanderbilt in the NCAA Championships from April 12-14 in Wickliffe, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. If the Commodores make the championship game, it will be televised on ESPNU at 7 p.m. central time on the 14th.

St. Elmo scored three runs in the top of the seventh inning to beat Brownstown, 6-3, on Monday.

The game was tied at three after the Bombers scored all of their runs in the bottom of the fifth, with Austin Hunter driving home two runs on a double and Brady McDowell bringing home another on a double of his own.

The Eagles scored twice in the fourth and once in the fifth to build an initial lead.

On the strength of three first- and second-place finishers, the St. Elmo boys track team placed second at Vandalia last Thursday.

The Lady Eagles got a pair of firsts and one second to finish in a tie for third place.

Lucas Hill placed first in the discus, with a throw of 83 feet, 8 ½ inches, Curt Frailey won long jump, with a leap of 18 feet, 6 inches, and the 4X100-meter relay team showed some speed to win in 0:49.59.

Coach Bobby Bowden, who built a football dynasty at Florida State University, told participants at Monday night’s All-South Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet that there’s more to life than winning football games.

“I’ve won national championships,” said Bowden, 82, “but even after those wins, there was a void in my life. The only way to fill that void is through Jesus Christ. God made us that way.”